Article: Bosnian Serb goes on trial for war crimes Attorney warns against framing defendant in `the thirst for revenge'; Weighing war crimes Facts about the U.N. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal: History: The U.N. Security Council established the court in 1993 in The Hague, Netherlands. It requested $40.3 million for 1996 and has a staff of 311, including 61 war crimes investigators. Judges: The chief prosecutor is South African judge Richard Goldstone. The president, Italian Antonio Cassese, is one of 11 judges from around the world. Jurisdiction: The tribunal has the authority to prosecute war crimes including genocide and crimes against humanity committed in the former Yugoslavia from Jan. 1, 1991, to a yet-undetermined date. Suspects: Out of 57 suspects, there are 43 Bosnian Serbs, three Serbs, eight Bosnian Croats and three Bosnian Muslims. Suspects in custody: Bosnian Serb Dusan Tadic is accused of murder, torture and rape in Serb-run camps in Bosnia in 1992. Bosnian Croat Zdravko Mucic allegedly commanded a camp in central Bosnia where Bosnian Serb inmates were tortured to death. And Gen. Tihomir Blaskic, former Bosnian Croat militia leader, is accused of commanding troops who murdered Muslims and torched villages. Other suspects: Gen. Djordje Djukic, indicted for his role in the Serb shelling of Sarajevo that killed 10,000, was released April 24 because he was dying of cancer. Other top suspects include Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and Bosnian Serb army commander Gen. Ratko Mladic. Both are accused of genocide and crimes against humanity. Both are at large.

The trial of a Bosnian Serb charged with torturing and murdering his Muslim and Croat neighbors opened Tuesday before the first international war crimes tribunal since the postwar judgments at Nuremberg and Tokyo.

Dusan "Dusko" Tadic, 40, a cafe owner and karate instructor, looked nervous and confused as he stepped into the dock as the first person to stand trial before a United Nations tribunal set up three years ago to investigate Balkan war crimes. If convicted of all charges, he could face life imprisonment.

Prosecutor Grant Niemann accused Tadic of helping Serb forces round up thousands of Muslims and Croats in a wave of ethnic cleansing in 1992 in the Prijedor region of central ...

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